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date: "2021-07-22T16:01:21Z"
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  - linkedin
description: "A developer war story about technical debt doubles as a hiring post for tech leads who understand how today's shortcuts become tomorrow's humility."
keywords: ["technical debt", "developer story", "hiring", "tech lead", "maintenance", "LinkedIn"]
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Is your code built to last? Mohammed Niyas P shares a developer war story.

His shortcut worked. It delivered working code. But 5 years later, when it failed, he didn't expect he'd still be around to clean it up.

https://gramener.com/developerwarstories/this-tech-debt-made-me-humble

Found this tale on technical debt interesting? Gramener is #hiring #developers for a technical lead role. See https://gramener.com/job/?id=90520

Nikhil Kabbin -- your story's up next 😉

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6824005443581485056)